Mao said that the Chinese revolution had two stages, democracy and socialism. He also claimed the former was “democracy of the Chinese type, a new and special type, namely, New Democracy”.

China is a one-party state lacking in three pillars of the American system: liberty, democracy and the rule of law. Millions of Chinese died during the Cultural Revolution, and tens of millions ...

The A4 Revolution may be the force that pushes China out of Xi’s tight grip and empowers more moderate thinkers at elite levels in the party. But even if it does not, it will have empowered the ...

Manipulation of the concept of democracy by the CCP began before its takeover in 1949; the revolution would succeed with a promise of democracy, then abandon it when power had been achieved.

One helpful fact is that the Chinese system has been cruel to some of its own elite members, such as during the Anti-Rightist Campaign in the 1950s and the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s.

As Donald Trump shakes up the very institutions, alliances, and free trade order that have underpinned America’s global dominance since World War II, some in China are reminded of their own ...

The Cultural Revolution is everywhere felt in China today, ... Tiananmen Square is best remembered today for the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations that were eventually crushed by the government.

The pro-democracy student protesters of 1989 also drew inspiration from May Fourth, using its memory to legitimize their cause. Tanks and gunfire cleared them from Tiananmen Square.

I survived Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party’s purges. What's happening now reminds me of the CCP’s Central Cultural Revolution Group.

Many Chinese citizens see parallels between the turmoil in the United States under the Trump administration and the Cultural ...

As Donald Trump shakes up the very institutions, alliances, and free trade order that have underpinned America’s global dominance since World War II, some in China are reminded of their own ...